What the records say
- When
- 20 Dec 1940 – 15 Dec 1944
- Kind
- Rebellion
- Coordinates
- 42.98° N, 47.48° E
- Description
- Vainakh revolt against the Soviet authorities
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya
Revolt against the Soviet Union
The 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya was an autonomous revolt against the Soviet authorities in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Beginning in early 1940 under Hasan Israilov, it peaked in 1942 during the German invasion of North Caucasus and ended in the beginning of 1944 with the wholesale concentration and deportation of the Vainakh peoples from their native lands as well as from the locatio…
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